Samba Upgrade Issue

[Chris Morton]

Rick Stevens wrote:

> Chris Morton wrote:
>
>> Over the weekend, I upgraded my server from RedHat 7.3 to Fedora.
>>
>> For the most part, everything runs.  There is a major problem however.
>>
>> I was running Samba 2.2.x.  When I did the upgrade, I no longer had 
>> access to my home directory.
>>
>> After finally finding some useful documentation, it appears that 3.x 
>> is VASTLY different from 2.x.  I THINK the issue relates to LDAP, but 
>> I don't know anything about LDAP, and I haven't gotten far enough 
>> into the documentation to make heads or tails of what's really going on.
>
>
> I think you'll find that the difference is in the security.  Samba 2.x
> used "security = share" by default, 3.x uses "security = user". 

Thanks for your reply.

I solved both problems earlier today.

I use my Samba as a PDC, so I already have "security=user".  The problem 
was with this line in the [homes] share:

"valid users = %S"

Apparently, this is not permitted in Samba 3.x.  Commenting it out 
solved that problem.

>
>
>> Can anybody tell me if there's a quick fix for the home directory issue?
>
>
> Check your log files in /var/log/samba to see what the issue is.  You
> may want to install swat and use it to modify your setups.
>
>> Secondly, I have video on the server, but it seems to be at the wrong 
>> sync rate(s), because of video artifacts on the screen.  I use an old 
>> close out MicroCenter 14" monitor on a switchbox to access the server 
>> directly.  Apparently no version of RedHat can probe it correctly, 
>> and finding the monitor spec.s is quite the challenge.  I THINK I 
>> found a usenet post on Google Groups (in Russian!) with the right 
>> spec.s, but unless I'm mistaken the X configuration file has changed 
>> some too.  It's listed as an "E447AU" on the back of the monitor.  I 
>> ended up picking a Generic 1024x768 monitor just to get video.  What 
>> do I need to change, especially to get the frequency right for the 
>> resolutions?
>
>
> You can try redhat-config-xfree86 and reconfigure X.  It allows you to
> choose different resolutions and such and test them before committing
> them to the config file.  WARNING: You may damage your monitor when you
> test modes greater than 640x480 if the refresh and sync rates are wrong.

The video problem was apparently caused by Fedora either mis-identifying 
the video card, rather than the monitor, or using a driver that sucked.  
I switched to "VESA" for the video card and video is perfect.